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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 20, 2013
Applicant:

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;

Inventors:

Brian Mohr, Edinburgh, GB;

Marco Razeto, Edinburgh, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06K 9/4604 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20224 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus for visualizing medical image data comprises a data processing unit for obtaining first image data representing a first medical image, second image data representing a second medical image, and subtraction image data representing a subtraction image, wherein the subtraction image data is generated by subtracting one of the first medical image data and the second medical image data from the other of the first medical image data and the second medical image data, and the apparatus further comprises a feature identification unit for processing the first image data representing the first medical image to identify a feature, and a rendering unit for rendering a combined image comprising an overlay of the identified feature from the first medical image data and one of the subtraction image and the second medical image.


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